Legal News 08/2013 (Page 4)

Former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova, who now represents one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told a Washington radio station Monday that the real scandal in Benghazi is the theft of 400 surface-to-air missiles by some “very ugly people.” The Obama ...(Aug 13, 2013, National Review Online (blog))

Lawyer: R&B singer Usher's son released from hospital after nearly drowning ...

“The history of airline merger reviews by the antitrust division shows that they have permitted the overall mergers of these very large trunk airlines provided that they divest themselves of a certain discrete number of routes, slots, gates or ...(Aug 13, 2013, MarketWatch (blog))

Are Autograph Dealers Turning On Johnny Manziel Because His Lawyer Had ...

Are Autograph Dealers Turning On Johnny Manziel Because His Lawyer Had ...(Aug 13, 2013, Business Insider)

Bard Put Profits Ahead of Patients' Safety, Lawyer Says

C.R. Bard Inc. (BCR) officials put profits ahead of women's safety when they ignored warnings about defects in some vaginal-mesh implants, a lawyer told a jury in the first federal trial of claims over the devices. Bard officials knew the company was ...(Aug 13, 2013, Bloomberg)

Report: A-Rod adds 'the most hated lawyer in New York' to his legal team

The New York Post's Page Six gossip column is reporting that A-Rod has added criminal defense attorney Joe Tacopina to his legal team, a guy that has been called "the most hated lawyer in New York." Rodriguez, of course, is staring at a possible 211 ...(Aug 14, 2013, Yahoo! Sports)

County Board dumps lawyer ticketed for soliciting prostitute

Kathy Charlton, a lawyer at Hawks Quindel, issued a statement on behalf of the firm saying it supported Saks as he took the steps "to deal with this situation directly and move beyond." She said the incident wouldn't affect the quality of the firm's ...(Aug 14, 2013, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Disbarred Yorktown lawyer stole $400G, prosecutors say

Sheila Joiner of Meridian, Miss., who encountered Diven when she was divorcing her husband in the early 2000s and later reported him to the state bar association for “unethical” conduct, said that her experience with the former lawyer was something ...(Aug 14, 2013, The Journal News | LoHud.com)

When Lawyers Cut Their Clients Out of the Deal

The plaintiffs' lawyers would get about $2.3 million. Facebook would make a roughly $6.5 million payment — to a new foundation it would partly control. The appeals court upheld the settlement last year by a 2-to-1 vote, with the majority saying it was ...(Aug 14, 2013, New York Times)

Lawyers Hint at Possible Recovery of Stolen Art

BRUSSELS — Paintings worth tens of millions of dollars that were stolen last October from an art museum in the Netherlands have not been burned, and a Romanian gang behind the theft wants to cut an unspecified deal with the authorities so the artwork ...(Aug 14, 2013, New York Times)

Silvio Berlusconi's lawyer said Wednesday he believed the former premier would request and could be granted a presidential pardon following his tax fraud conviction, sparking a heated debate in Italy. "I believe (a pardon) will sooner or later be ...(Aug 14, 2013, GlobalPost)

DETROIT -- The lawyer for a Detroit-area cancer specialist accused of intentionally misdiagnosing patients says his client cannot post a $9 million bond. Christopher Andreoff (AN'-dree-off) made the comment Wednesday, a day after a federal judge ...(Aug 14, 2013, MiamiHerald.com)

NEWARK — With their hands locked together and their heads turned away from a crush of media, reality TV stars Joe and Teresa Giudice remained silent as they entered Newark's federal courthouse this afternoon to answer charges of hiding millions of ...(Aug 14, 2013, NJ.com)

DIY Divorce: Why You Should Think Twice Before Divorcing Without A Lawyer

More and more people are choosing to divorce without the help of a lawyer. Sites like MyDivorcePapers.com and iDivorceForms.com allow users to prepare divorce papers without any legal consultation, and now it appears that some people are using sites ...(Aug 14, 2013, Huffington Post)

Lawyer to the stars arraigned for snitching on client

A disgraced Los Angeles lawyer to the stars was arraigned Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court on charges of snitching on a client who was cooperating with the feds. Roger Rosen pleaded not guilty, but has agreed to resign as a lawyer as part of a ...(Aug 14, 2013, New York Daily News)

Lawyer: Benefits for seasonal hotshots would break law

Lawyer: Benefits for seasonal hotshots would break law. PHOENIX -- It would cost Prescott, Ariz., up to $52 million to provide families of the seasonal firefighters who died in the Yarnell Hill Fire with full benefits, but to do so would violate state ...(Aug 15, 2013, USA TODAY)

Alex Rodriguez's legal team will challenge Major League Baseball's assertion that the embattled slugger has committed multiple violations of its drug policy, the New York Yankees third baseman's lawyer said Tuesday. MLB suspended Rodriguez for 211 ...(Aug 15, 2013, ESPN)

Snowden's Father Ignores Legal Advice, Contacts Son

The Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden revealed on Thursday that the father of the US intelligence leaker had for the first time contacted his son via the Internet in defiance of legal advice. The 30-year-old former US National Security Agency ...(Aug 15, 2013, Newsmax.com)

Lawyer: Victim suffered concussion in DWI wreck with DA prosecutor

AUSTIN -- New details have surfaced and new photographs have been released of an accident scene related to a Travis County District Attorney's DWI arrest. Brandon Grunewald is charged with DWI after Austin Police arrested him Sunday, August 11, ...(Aug 15, 2013, KVUE)

Chicago lawyer's second act: Playing piano on the concert stage

A settled, successful Chicago lawyer and family man, Damisch hadn't even touched a keyboard in nearly 20 years when he decided, at the ripe age of 43, that it might be kind of cool to shake out his fingers, squeeze into a tuxedo, and set out on the ...(Aug 15, 2013, Washington Post)

Copyright troll's lawyer wants record sealed so we won't make fun of him

Jesse Jackson Jr. will go to prison for 30 months, with the possibility of time off for good behavior. At the sentencing, his lawyer made some odious comments. Earlier, Jackson Jr.'s lawyer Reid Weingarten said his client felt “horror, shame and ...(Aug 15, 2013, National Review Online (blog))

San Jose lawyer Jamie Harley's legal woes continue to grow. Hit with a federal appeals court ruling this week that reinstated her money laundering convictions, Harley also faces a State Bar court trial later this month on an avalanche of new ...(Aug 15, 2013, San Jose Mercury News)

Controversial French lawyer Verges dies at 88

PARIS (AFP) – France's Jacques Verges, the provocative lawyer who earned the nickname of "Devil's advocate" by defending a long list of high-profile criminals from Klaus Barbie to Carlos the Jackal, died in Paris on Thursday. He was 88. "He died around ...(Aug 15, 2013, Fox News)

Kazakhstan: Lawyer in Forced Psychiatric Detention

(Berlin) – Kazakh authorities should immediately release a lawyer from unlawful, forced psychiatric detention and ensure her safety. They should give the lawyer immediate access to her legal representative and take steps to hold accountable all those ...(Aug 16, 2013, Human Rights Watch)

Wallace Hall's Lawyer: "Not a Basis for Impeachment"

In a letter to the co-chairs of the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, a lawyer for embattled University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall clarified some of the motivations behind Hall's ongoing investigation into the ...(Aug 16, 2013, Texas Tribune)

My kingdom for a lawyer: Dispute over bones of King Richard III may be headed ...

My kingdom for a lawyer: Dispute over bones of King Richard III may be headed ...(Aug 16, 2013, Fox News)

Jacques Verges dies; French lawyer defended despised criminals

Jacques Verges, the French lawyer and enfant terrible known for his defense of the world's most despised criminals, including the infamous Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (better known as Carlos the Jackal ...(Aug 16, 2013, Washington Post)

Chris Brown -- My Lawyer's a STUD -- He Deserves a Lamborghini

Exclusive. 081613_chris_brown_launch_v2. Ya might see Mark Geragos driving around town in a bright orange Lamborghini in the near future ... 'cause Chris Brown says it's the LEAST he could do for his super-lawyer for saving his ass ... again. Brown hit ...(Aug 16, 2013, TMZ.com)

Swiss Lawyer Pleads Guilty, Helps in US Tax Probe

A Swiss lawyer pleaded guilty in a U.S. probe of offshore tax evasion and has been telling prosecutors how he helped American clients use secret accounts to hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service. Edgar Paltzer, who was indicted on April 16 with ...(Aug 16, 2013, Bloomberg)

Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Tax Probe

In a move that could further pull back the veil on Swiss bank secrecy, a onetime Swiss tax lawyer admitted Friday to helping wealthy Americans hide millions of dollars for more than a decade in accounts overseas. Edgar Paltzer, a lawyer who used to ...(Aug 16, 2013, Wall Street Journal)

Mass. man charged in slaying wants new lawyer

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — An Easthampton man scheduled to go on trial in October for allegedly killing his girlfriend has told a judge he wants a new lawyer. Ryan Welch told a Hampshire Superior Court judge on Friday that he has objections to the way ...(Aug 16, 2013, Boston.com)

FORT MEADE, Md. -- Bradley Manning's lawyer told supporters in a candid question-and-answer session on Friday that he thinks little of the classified sentencing evidence that prosecutors have presented in closed court. David Coombs' talk in the ...(Aug 16, 2013, Huffington Post)

New Mexico: Albuquerque Police Are Criticized in Lawyer's Death

The state attorney general issued a scathing critique of the Albuquerque Police Department on Friday over its finding that a high-profile civil rights lawyer committed suicide. The death of the lawyer, Mary Han, in 2010 has been the source of ...(Aug 16, 2013, New York Times)

Lawyer: Gang Forced Women to Carry Drugs in Peru

The lawyer for a young Irish woman arrested in Peru for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine to Spain says she was forced to carry the drugs by a gang that threatened her and her family. Attorney Peter Madden says Michaela McCollum was "kidnapped," held ...(Aug 17, 2013, ABC News)

Lawyer named as New Mexico's securities regulator

SANTA FE, N.M. — An Albuquerque lawyer has been named by Gov. Susana Martinez to serve as New Mexico's top securities regulator. The governor's office announced Friday the appointment of Alan Wilson as director of the Securities Division in the ...(Aug 17, 2013, News & Observer)

Andrea Kramer, lawyer and women's advocate

"He told me that I didn't want to be a lawyer, that nobody liked lady lawyers, that lady lawyers would never get married, they'd never have a family, they would always be alone," Kramer says. Kramer went on to prove him wrong, graduating from law ...(Aug 17, 2013, Chicago Tribune)

Lawyer: Cleric Cleared in Pakistan Blasphemy Case

The lawyer, Wajid Gilani, said the district judge in Islamabad on Saturday granted the motion to acquit his client, cleric Khalid Chishti, after the judge ruled that the prosecution had not brought forward sufficient evidence. Chishti was the imam, or ...(Aug 17, 2013, ABC News)

Lawyer: Charges against cleric dropped in Pakistan blasphemy case

ISLAMABAD – A lawyer says a Pakistani court has dismissed charges against the cleric who accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy and had been arrested for allegedly forging evidence against her. Wajid Gilani said a district judge in Islamabad ...(Aug 17, 2013, Fox News)

ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Saturday dismissed charges against a cleric who accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy and who was arrested last year for allegedly forging evidence against her, his lawyer said. The case had brought new spotlight ...(Aug 17, 2013, Washington Post (blog))

Lawyer Says Yankees Misled Rodriguez About Injuries

That is the portrait that Rodriguez's combative new lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, presented in one of the first and most extensive interviews the Rodriguez camp has given since Rodriguez, the Yankees' third baseman, was notified of a 211-game suspension ...(Aug 17, 2013, New York Times (blog))

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Saturday dismissed charges against a cleric who had accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy and was arrested last year for allegedly forging evidence against her, his attorney said. The blasphemy case had ...(Aug 17, 2013, Washington Post)